[Hildy]

I'm drawing from many of my contemporaries who had abortions too. Of course the people who come into counseling centers will have their regrets. My point is that I don't believe they are in the majority. If you have valid statistics to point me to please do.

[Lorianne]

I only know 3 people personally who have had abortions. Each regrets the decision but all still support abortion as a legal choice.

There is also a thread at Salon called: Abortion, A Chosen Loss which has over 3,000 posts from women who have had abortions. If you read the thread you'll see most of them have regrets/sadness but very few of them have changed their view on abortion as a legal choice. So it's not an either/or proposition apparently. Still it's enlightening to read their stories, hear their pain.

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[shaggy eel]

My point is that I don't believe they are in the majority. If you have valid statistics to point me to please do.

,,, there's a big difference between not believing they are in the majority and knowing it. If you have valid statistics to point me to please do.

[Woahhs]

I'm drawing from many of my contemporaries who had abortions too. Of course the people who come into counseling centers will have their regrets. My point is that I don't believe they are in the majority.

Damn! How many "contemporaries" did you have?

[Prov3456]

The key here is the word, "valid." Do you decide which statistics are valid? Does it depend on whose statistics they are?

Women who are in denial over a past abortion rationalize anything that gets in the way of their continuing insistence that "there was nothing to it."

I wonder if you could accept the statistics as "valid," regardless of where they come from--or would they be valid only if they come from Planned Parenthood?